Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonA good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonOur world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonJulian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonA good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon